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It can't be an "end all" guide without my best tip: when my jeans have gone just too far, I wear them into the shower with me, soap them up with bar soap, and scrub them down with a scrub brush. Then I take them off and stomp on them through the rest of the shower to rinse out the soap, and twist the water out at the end. The result makes my clothes washer look like a feeble incompetent.

^ cool description of jeans vs shower!

"we opened our suitcase to find our favorite white shirt had become best buds with our red lip gloss..."

I can understand a co-owned suitcase, even a co-owned white shirt, but co-owned red lip gloss? Come on, guys, quit with the cutsie pronouns and use something approaching proper English.

I opened the comments just to say the same thing as rubylionesse, though I would prefer to phrase it:

"It's a blog! It's okay to write things in correct English rather than contort them to meet some random style guide. The pronoun "I" is perfectly acceptable. "Our"... not as much in this case"

lol MichaelD you are awesome. These tips look pretty cool too- laundry is an issue here since I have to go to the laundromat, so I try to save money by stretching out the life of my clean clothes.

Also can't we lay off the English police? I'm as much a fan of proper English as the next person, but what's REALLY annoying is when people nitpick the issue in the comments. Email the freaking website if it bothers you that much. Also, I see this type of writing in magazines and other websites all the time- it's perfectly accepted, and not going to go away. Sometimes best to get over it an focus on what they're writing and not how they're writing it :)

~Amanda

Maybe the lipstick is shared. There are such things as alternative lifestyles. :)

Thank you, Amanda!

Hmm, jeans in the shower! I might have to do this. I pay for laundry but not hot water :D I also happen to have a stubborn onion-odour that lingers on my pants courtesy of working in a vegetarian kitchen!
Do they take forever to dry? That is the one thing that I have a lot of trouble with when it comes to hand washing jeans. I do them all at once, then am forced to steal my boyfriend's pants until they dry.

thank YOU Amanda..no need for harshness/nitpicking.let's enjoy the content and breeze along!..

MichaelD - I've done the same with pantyhose and dress socks but without the scrub brush. If I'm going to be showering anyway, why not?

Thanks. We love the laundry tips esp the Jeans. We often get our jeans dirty too so we will get in the shower right away where we will scrub, clean and wash the aforementioned jeans and then get out of our jeans(...and you don't need to know the rest!).

I've got the best tip ever.
A 3 year old put her cherry smudged fingers all over my vintage white and polka dot dress. I was devastated. After scrounging around, I came across some kid's science multiple choice questionnaire that included a question about getting rid of cherry stains.
What to do:
Don't touch the stain. I let mine dry coz I didn't have any choice. Rub the stain with fresh tomato then put it in with your ordinary laundry. It came out without any hint of a stain!